Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Sigourney Bctleb, of Boston, has been appointee! to be Second Controller of the Treasury. .. .Edward A. Moseley, of

Boston, bsa been elected riecretaty of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Attorney General has been instructed to commence suits against parties in various sections of the country charged with unlawfully removing timber from the public domain... The work of commencing the gathering of statistics about marriage and divorce, ordered by Congress, has been entered upon. Major F. W. Bexteen’s sentence to dismissal from the army for drunkenness has been commuted to one year’s suspension from rank and duty on half pay.... Edward F. Bingham, of Ohio, has been appointed by the President to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Caitier. Judge Bingham is a personal friend and associate of Allen G. Thurman, who warmlv recommended his appointment, as did all the members of tee Supreme Court of Ohio.